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The Secret Life of Austin Mom


See what I did there? I just pulled you in with a sensational headline.   

Sensationalism.

It seems all too common now. A friend was talking about the dramatic headline some time ago regarding batteries that could cause a house fire. So instead of immediately saying in the headline, that  "Batteries improperly stored could cause a house fire",  the news lead with the headline that something everybody has in their home could cause a fire.
It's the way news works now and even unfortunately in medical reporting. It's called sensationalism. I am sure that if you did not know that before, the ongoing political coverage has helped you to understand that  term very well. For example, Women's Health Magazine ran an article "The Scary Mental Health Risks of Going Meatless" based on 2 studies and some anecdotal evidence. According to the Health Letter from the Center for Science in the Public Health (April 2016), one study couldn't be found and the other concluded that the vegetarian diet followed the onset of mental disorders. Hmm. That seems to be the opposite to what the headline suggests? But then that must make for good click-bait.

Back to the secret life of Austin Mom

So no extramarital affairs or substance abuse or swinging or exotic dancing will be revealed in this blogpost. Unfortunately the only salacious details in my boring-ass world (friends included) is that there is a lady at the gym who does not shower after she works out in the morning. She dries off with a towel and cleans with some wipes,  changes her clothes for work, (including underwear) and heads out.
She does this every time  I see her, multiple times per week. This is not a one-off.
I don't get it. I seem to be understanding less and less about my world. 



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